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Grad Students Find Inevitable Patterns in Big Sets of Numbers

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Study confirms that thinking hard is unpleasant

Saturn’s rings are disappearing

A tower on the moon could provide astronauts with light, power and guidance

He lost two homes to California fires in six years. Now what?

A parasitic single-celled organism, a type of archaea, is dwelling in an Antarctic lake

For ISS Astronauts, Digestive Issues Are Surprisingly Common

AI paves way for new antibiotic to fight resistant bacteria

Meet the surprisingly complex ancestor of all life on Earth

China’s secretive space plane caught on camera in orbit (photos)

Will We Ever Hear the 9/11 Mastermind’s Secrets?

Study Suggests Earth Had Hidden Polar Moons After Theia Collision

How the FDA Could Shape the Future of Psychedelics Research

The Surface of Dimorphos is Surprisingly New

The Police Department That Refused to Solve a Murder

‘Why are people always pointing the finger at furries?’: inside the wild world of the furry fandom

‘Astonishing’ Antarctica heat wave sends temperatures 50 degrees above normal

The Higgs particle could have ended the universe by now – here’s why we’re still here

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Moscow’s Spies Were Stealing US Tech — Until the FBI Started a Sabotage Campaign

Sprouts Spotted by the Stump of the Sycamore Gap Tree

On this day in 1997 the capital of Montserrat was buried by a volcano

‘Not stranded in space’: how Nasa lost control of Boeing Starliner narrative

Video: ‘The Police Raided My Legal Weed Business’ [21:33]

American Beer Barons: How Busch, Pabst, and Schlitz Built Beer Empires

How Extreme Heat Harms Planes, Trains, Water Mains and Other Crucial Infrastructure

The French baron who revived the Olympics believed they were more than sport – they were a religion of perfection and peace

One in 100 million cotton candy lobster caught in New Hampshire

63 Ancient Tombs Have Emerged in Egypt, With Long-Lost Treasures and Statues Inside

What plant philosophy says about plant agency and intelligence

Mysterious Antimatter Detection on ISS Sparks Radical New Theories

How a Rare Disorder Makes People See Monsters

Artist Spends 10 Years Drawing His Incredible Adventures Onboard a Cruise Ship

Archaeologists Find a 2,400-Year-Old ‘Pot of Gold’ in Turkey

20 Years Later, MESSENGER Is Still Giving Us Strange Hidden Gems

‘Your favourite rappers are only alive because of our sacrifices’: the secret life of rap bodyguards

Samsung’s EV battery breakthrough: 600-mile charge in 9 mins, 20 year lifespan

A World-Changing Gamma Ray Laser Is on the Horizon. It Could One Day Unlock Interstellar Travel

Video: The Greenwich Meridian is in the wrong place [25:06]

Witness to Titan sub tragedy tells of fear and false hope

Fabricating Dreams: On How an Unknown Publisher in Edo Japan Enticed the World

Video: What Made This Huge Hole Under Greenland? [6:31]

On this day in 1947 a Lancastrian airliner disappeared en route to Santiago, Chile

Robin Windross disappeared from a care center in 1977. His parents remain haunted by questions

Big dinosaur extinction saw rapid bird evolution

New research reveals why certain paper is more likely to cause cuts.

Saturn threw a comet out of the solar system at 6,700 mph. Here’s how

Scientists traced roses’ thorny origins and solved a 400 million-year-old mystery

Video: How a Fisherman Created the World’s Smallest Country [41:13]

On this day in 1939 Einstein co-wrote a letter to president Roosevelt urging him to fund research into atomic weaponry

Hotels and restaurants are dropping prices after unexpected quietness in Paris during the Olympics

Secret Medieval Papal Residence Unearthed in Rome

New insights into Iceland’s recent bout of eruptions

“Screaming Woman” mummy may have died in agony 3,500 years ago, study finds

What happens when you don’t have enough ingredients to make a planet?

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He Was an FBI Informant—and Inspired a Generation of Violent Extremists